Spout-brace for sheet-metal vessels.



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CHARLES L. \VAGANDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL ENAMELING dz STAMPING CO., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

I SPOUT-BRACE FOR SHEET-METAL VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,408, dated July 8, 1902. Application filed May 9,1902. Serial No. 106,562. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES LJVAGANDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spout-Braces for Sheet-Metal Vessels,-of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in braces for the tubular spouts of sheet-metal vessels, such as sprinkling-cans and the like, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which+ Figure 1 is a perspective View of a sprinkling-can provided with my improved spoutbrace. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the can-body and its breast before they are attached to each other and illus trates the brace hung over the upper edge of the body preparatory to being fastened thereto. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating the edge of the breast crimped over into engagement with the upper edge of the body and fastening the brace in place. Fig. 4: is abottom or inverted View, slightly in perspective, of the brace, showing its primary shape. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a sprinklingcan embodying a modification of the improved spout-brace. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the body of the can shown in Fig. 5 and illustrates the brace just preparatory to being fastened to the can. Fig. 7 is a similar view illustrating the said brace fastened in place. Fig. 8 is a bottom or inverted view, slightly in perspective, of the said brace.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a designates the body of a sheet-metal vessel, in this instance a sprinkling-can. b designates a spout secured at its lower end to the said body in any preferred manner, and c designates a breast whose marginal edge is crimped to the upper edge of the body. The spout b is held rigid at its upper end by means of an improved brace d, which is integral or one piece, preferably stamped out of sheetmetal, and provided at one end with an opening 6 entirely within its margin and provided at its other end with two tangs f, and the marginal edge of the said brace bounding its two sides, and the apertured end is curled under on itself, as shown at g, so that it will simulate a wired edge.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4, the can-body a is provided at the front portion of its upper edge with a notch or recess h, and in the manufacture of the can before the breast c and spout b are attached to the body a the said brace 01 is hung by its tangs in the said recess, the brace extending down along the outside of the wall of the body, as illustrated in Fig. 2, so that it will be out of the Way when the breast is being attached to the body, and the tangs turning downwardly close against the inside of said wall. After the said brace is thus hung the marginal edge 41 of the breast is spun or crimped down into interlocking engagement with the upper edge of the body and extends across the said notch or recess h and in contact with the uppersurface of the brace (2, thereby fastening the tang end of the brace in place. Thus the tang end of the brace issecured at the joinder of the body-wall and breast. The brace 01 is then bent up into the horizontal position shown in Fig. 3, and the spout b(without its rose-head j) has its smaller or tapered end passed upwardly as far as it will go through the opening e in the brace and is then secured at its lower end in the opening made in the body to receive it.

Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 illustrate a modification.

The brace d is substantially like the brace (Z, (illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4,) in that it has at one end an opening e toreceive the upper end of the spout b and has at its other end two fangs f, and its side edges and apertured end edge are curled under on themselves, as indicated at g.

In the manufacture of the can embodying this modification the brace 11', with its tangs turned upwardly, is placed against the outside of the can-body a, as shown in Fig. 6, and is secured thereto by a wire band Z en circling [said body. Then the entire upper edge of the can-body is rolled outwardly and downwardly around the wire Z, which action, as shown in Fig. 7, rolls the tangs f over the wire and clenches said tangs between the wire and the can-body wall, thereby securely fastening the brace to the can-body. The spout b is then secured to the can-body and to the brace as described in connection with can shown in Fig. 1, and the breast c has its marginal edge 1" extending over the said brace in contact with the upper surface of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with the vessel-body having a breast and spout, of a sheet-metal brace having a tang end secured to the said body at the joinder of the bodywall and breast and provided at its other end with an opening formed entirely within its margin, said opening receiving and entirely surrounding the spout, and the marginal edge of the breast extendingacross said brace in contact with the' upper surface of the same, as set 20 forth.

2. A sheet-metal vessel, comprising a body provided at its upper edge with a recess; a

spout secured to said body; a brace provided at one end with an opening which receives 25 the said spout and provided atits other end with tangs taking through said recess; and a breast having its marginal edge interlocked with theupper edge of the vessel-body and extending over said brace in contact with the 30 upper surface 'of the same whereby to secure said brace to the body, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. WAGANDT. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES L. VIETSOH, FREDERICK S. STITT. 

